Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-19

great republic offer inducements which
our neighbors VIII eventually discover.
Dor City, with its 1900 Cubans, is a
beacon light which will guide many
SENIORS TO Florida.
The boom OF Florida is not owing
10 speculation in town lots, as in
other States, but comes from the influx OF
the best class of people, who set to WORK
at once to cultivate The soil, and prosper
GUS towns and cities OF the State are built
up because prosperous farming commu-
mites require them. The people are en-
tousiashc about the State and have con-
ndence in It's increasing prosperity.
such population would make a grand
commonwealth anywhere.
FLORIDA EDITORS.
There was but little opportunity afford
ed In such rapid transit to visit many
members of the editorial fraternity. AT
Jacksonville Mr. G. II. Jones, of the
imes-union, and 8r. j. r. Graves, of the
Herald, and their associates, extended q
cordial welcome 10 the newspaper detach-
ment OF the excurslOnists. MIR. Jones was
still wrestling with the missing tourists
and Mr.. Graves was deYO.ing his time TO
the question of paving the walks in Jack
sonviile's park. In the absence OF a red
hot political campaign, the editorial pen
is cooled in the placid waters OF local
affairs.
At Palatka the Daily News, under
the management of Hon. Benia
Harrison, and Messrs. 5. n. Ham,
mOnd and w. W. Randall, Is de-
veloping into a leading daily. 1t has
just arranged for the Associated Press
dispatches. With that service palatka
Is entitled to rank as a city, at least from
a newspaper point Of view, and It's citi-
zens should double their patronage, and
in that way encourage tue enterprise Of
the Daily News.
Palatka is located on a grand site
for city, the land in It's suburbs
rising to quite respectable sized hills.
The good taste of Its citizens in planting
rows of orange trees in the
streets should be appreciated by
those who have been married
for any great length OF time. The smell
of orange blossoms recall happy days
Sin The years that knew no SORROW"
For a tourist, with a half dozen heirs
scattered around in cribs and bedsteads,
to pass away into dreamland with the
breezes waiting the sweet odors of the
orange flowers across his wrinkled brow,
to be awakened by a Colicky baby or a
boy with an ache which might be that OF
tooth, but it isn't, to the stern realities
OF his situation, is one Of the penalties OF
stopping at 1aIaGka. Inc ola HaIatkd
Herald is as bright and newsy as it was
in days when 1t first published those sto-
RES which gave to its editor the soubrI-
quet of Alligator Pratt,
At Tampa there is a little daily,
the News, (the News is a faVorite
name in Florida. Mr.. jackson. the
editor, was in summer costume busily
at work "setting up" show bill
when tho tourist handed in his card.
Mr.. Jackson is the editor, printer,
pressman and devil, which
was probably the cause OF
his remarking that he proposed to quit
publishing a daily paper and devote his
entire energies to job work. The bright
future of Tampa and the short line to
everywhere south OF it had no charms fol-
him. He was solid, however, on one
thing, he was beyond the reach of strikes
Several gentlemen of the press called al
the special car aud left their kind regards
nothing else); the newspaper tourist
hopes to meet them come time in the
future when time and opportunity will
allow him to saunter through FlOrids
in something slower than Genera
Managers car with several railroad presi
dents on board. j. II. K.